DOI: 10.66617/001c.164294 ISSN: 2996-8968
Existing and Engineered Excipients as Product-Enabling Materials
Örn Almarsson, PhD, Magali B. Hickey, PhDExcipients are often discussed as inactive ingredients, implying to those unfamiliar with pharmaceutical development that their function is merely to accompany the active ingredient. It is less well known that many successful drug products depend on purpose-built excipient functions that directly control chemical stability, physical form, processability, solubility, delivery,
and overall clinical usability